Gustave Eiffel’s Company Completes the Eiffel Tower

More like this

• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Eiffel Tower's Rust-Fighting Repaint Unveiled for the Paris Olympics

  Eiffel Tower, Paris, FranceCity of Paris

  

  Starts 06/07/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Eiffel Tower is sporting a new set of rings — the five Olympic rings, to be exact".

  Paris unveiled the Eiffel Tower in its original 1907 gold-brown shade in June 2024, weeks before hosting the Olympic Games, after a repaint cut back from about a third of the ironwork to roughly 5 per cent.

  $60M

  0.75

  00
• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Tour Triangle Is Delivered at Porte de Versailles

  1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 15th arrondissement, Paris, FranceUnibail-Rodamco-Westfield

  

  Starts 01/01/2027DELAYED1 day late40% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysFrance 3's site visit reports the tower is "au niveau du 35e etage... pour une livraison finale debut 2027" - final delivery in early 2027, a season rather than a date.^[1]

  Herzog & de Meuron's 180-metre glass wedge holds 44 floors of offices, a hotel and a restaurant on the edge of the Parc des Expositions, and is the first high-rise built inside Paris in about 40 years. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield started work at the end of 2021 and is fitting out the EUR 700 million tower for its final handover.

  €700M

  0.72

  00
• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  City of Paris Inaugurates La Canopée at Les Halles

  Forum des Halles, 101 Porte Berger, 75001 Paris, FranceCity of Paris

  

  Starts 04/05/2016CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE10.5 years agoFrench outlets Batiactu^[3] and Ingélux, and Wikipedia's^[2] French edition, date the Canopée's public inauguration to April 5, 2016.

  Paris unveiled La Canopée, a sweeping glass-and-steel roof capping the decade-long, roughly 800 million euro renovation of the Forum des Halles shopping and transit hub. Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the inauguration of the structure designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti.

  0.71

  00
• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  53W53 Completes Above Manhattan's MoMA

  53 West 53rd Street, Midtown East, Manhattan, New York, NY 10019, United States

  

  Starts 01/01/2020ESTIMATED51% CONFIDENCE6.7 years agoGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "the Hines-led development team commenced closings... the building is now ready to welcome its first residents."

  Jean Nouvel's super-slender 53 West 53rd Street tower, built above an expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, finished construction and began welcoming residents.

  0.70

  00
• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  One Thousand Museum Completes in Miami

  One Thousand Museum, 1000 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, 33132, United StatesZaha Hadid Architects

  

  Starts 06/28/2019CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the tower has received its TCO (temporary certificate of occupancy), meaning that it is one step closer to officially welcoming residents."

  Zaha Hadid Architects' exoskeleton-clad One Thousand Museum tower finished construction on Miami's Biscayne Boulevard, one of the late architect's last works.

  0.67

  00
• Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Co-Owners Scrap the €800M Tour Montparnasse Overhaul

  Tour Montparnasse, Paris, France

  

  Starts 07/21/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE64 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "co-owners of the tower voted to scrap the ambitious transformation" at a 21 July 2026 general assembly.

  Ten years after Paris approved Nouvelle AOM's full glass-facade transformation of the Tour Montparnasse, the tower's co-owners voted to abandon that plan in favour of a smaller, cheaper intervention.

  €800M

  0.67

  00
• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Egypt's Iconic Tower Completed

  New Administrative Capital, Egypt

  

  Starts 12/31/2024CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE1.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: the Iconic Tower's "official completion date was 2024".

  The 394-metre Iconic Tower in Egypt's New Administrative Capital was completed in 2024, becoming Africa's first supertall skyscraper and its tallest building.

  0.67

  00
• Architecture09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Notre-Dame de Paris Restoration Complete

  Paris, France

  

  Starts 06/01/2030ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…opened to worshippers in December 2024. Estimated date.…"

  Work continues on the exterior, flying buttresses and sacristy after the cathedral reopened to worshippers in December 2024. Estimated date.

  $739M

  0.66

  00
• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  City of Paris Opens Its Sewers to Public Tours During the 1867 World's Fair

  93 Quai d'Orsay, 75007 Paris, FranceCity of Paris

  

  Starts 04/01/1867ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE159.5 years agoThe Paris^[3] sewer museum's own history page states tours "began in 1867, during the World's Fair" without naming an exact day, so the pin uses the Fair's opening date.

  During the 1867 Exposition Universelle, Paris opened Baron Haussmann's newly rebuilt sewer network to public tours for the first time, turning Eugène Belgrand's engineering into a civic showcase.

  0.66

  00
• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  2 World Trade Center Construction Restarts

  200 Greenwich Street, New York, NY, USASilverstein Properties

  

  Starts 07/09/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE76 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: a "groundbreaking ceremony held for new 2 World Trade Center" took place on "July 9, 2026".

  After 14 years of stalled foundations, construction officially restarted on 2 World Trade Center with a groundbreaking ceremony, anchored by American Express as its future headquarters tenant.

  0.65

  00
• Health09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Building Starts on the Saint-Ouen Grand Paris-Nord Hospital Campus

  Rue Ardoin, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, FranceAssistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris

  

  Starts 03/30/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE177 days agoAP-HP's^[1] announcement says "les travaux du campus hospitalo-universitaire Saint-Ouen Grand Paris-Nord ont debute le 30 mars 2026" - the works began on 30 March 2026.

  AP-HP started construction on the former Stellantis plant site in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine after two years of demolition and decontamination, with the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis signing the hospital's building permit on 24 September 2025. The campus will bring together a new hospital taking the medical and surgical work of the Bichat and Beaujon hospitals, a Universite Paris Cite health faculty and student housing, complete by 2032.

  0.65

  00
• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Paris Métro Opens Its First Line

  Porte Maillot, Paris, FranceRATP

  

  Starts 07/19/1900CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE126.2 years agoRATP's^[3] own history page and EarthSky's^[2] science-history article both give 19 July 1900 as the inauguration date of the first métro line.

  The Paris Métro's first line opened to the public on 19 July 1900, running between Porte Maillot and Château de Vincennes.

  0.64

  00